Even Ogden Nash couldn't get much of a comic poem out of the Duck-Billed Platypus. Given that, it is hardly surprising that this entry in David Hand's short-lived "Animaland" series for British Gaumont is good but not great.
The artwork is impeccable in the candybox style that was already gone from American animation and there is a small female chorus that sings a romantic little song that ends the courtship of two shy young platypuses -- platypii? Platypodes? OK, a young boy platypus and a young girl platypus -- in an intensely anthropomorphic fashion that is at odds with the realistic illustrations. However, I do like the comic relief of the kookaburras and the ending joke is decent.
The artwork is impeccable in the candybox style that was already gone from American animation and there is a small female chorus that sings a romantic little song that ends the courtship of two shy young platypuses -- platypii? Platypodes? OK, a young boy platypus and a young girl platypus -- in an intensely anthropomorphic fashion that is at odds with the realistic illustrations. However, I do like the comic relief of the kookaburras and the ending joke is decent.
